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CHAPTER III. A TALK ON THE WATER. ANT a boat, sir?" " No, thank
you, my boy; it is too cold for the water to-day." " Perhaps it is,
sir, for land folk; but I go out any weather with father; so I
takes less notice, I suppose." " How long have you taken to the
water 1" " O sir," said the boy; and he looked up with a pleasant
smile on his weather-beaten young face, and tossed his dark hair
back from his forehead?" I don't remember the time when I first got
into father's boat; it seems to me I might have been cradled in it,
for all I know. The first thing I can think upon is having the
great waves all round me, and the little white fish dancing about
in them." " Oh, your father is a fisherman, is he ?" " Yes, sir; he
fishes, as well as keeps this here boat; 'cause, don't you see,
sir, this weather, when nobody goes out hardly, we shouldn't all of
us be able to live onboating; for we're a brave, big family?nine of
us, besides father and mother; and there's only two of us away at
sea; they're mostly little 'uns." " And how old are you ?" "
Fourteen, sir." " And a fine boy of your age, too," said the
stranger, smiling. At that moment?as it sometimes happens in
winter? the sun shining out suddenly from behind a cloud, lit up
the inky sea with wonderfully beautiful effect, changing, as if by
magic, and in a moment, the whole aspect of the scene. The bay was
crowded with small and large sailing vessels, waiting for a
favourable wind, and the sunbeams caught the white and brown sails,
and the mast-heads, and lit all up with their own glorious, golden
beauty. " It is enough to tempt one out, if this sunshine will only
last," said the stranger. " We shall have gleams like this,"
rejoined the boy, looking up at the white masses of cloud and the
dark sky betwe...
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